Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2018)

Andrew M. Q. King (1) , Elliot J. Lefkowitz (2) , Arcady R. Mushegian (3) , Michael J. Adams , Bas E. Dutilh (4, 5) , Alexander E. Gorbalenya (6, 7) , Balázs Harrach (8) , Robert L. Harrison (9) , Sandra Junglen (10, 11) , Nick J. Knowles (1) , Andrew M. Kropinski (12) , Mart Krupovic (13) , Jens H. Kuhn (14) , Max L. Nibert (15) , Luisa Rubino (16) , Sead Sabanadzovic (17) , Hélène Sanfaçon (18) , Stuart Siddell (19) , Peter Simmonds (20) , Arvind Varsani (21) , Francisco Murilo Zerbini (22) , Andrew Davison (23)

1 The Pirbright Institute
2 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
3 NSF - National Science Foundation [Arlington]
4 Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics [Utrecht]
5 Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]
6 Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
7 MSU - Lomonosov Moscow State University
8 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
9 USDA - USDA Agricultural Research Service [Maricopa, AZ]
10 HSU - Humboldt State University
11 DZIF - German Centre for Infection Research
12 University of Guelph
13 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
14 NIAID-NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda]
15 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
16 Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante (CNR-IPSP)
17 Mississippi State University [Mississippi]
18 AAFC - Agriculture and Agri-Food
19 University of Bristol [Bristol]
20 University of Oxford
21 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
22 UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa = Federal University of Viçosa
23 University of Glasgow

This article lists the changes to virus taxonomy approved and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses in February 2018. A total of 451 species, 69 genera, 11 subfamilies, 9 families and one new order were added to the taxonomy. The current totals at each taxonomic level now stand at 9 orders, 131 families, 46 subfamilies, 803 genera and 4853 species. A change was made to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature to allow the use of the names of people in taxon names under appropriate circumstances. An updated Master Species List incorporating the approved changes was released in March 2018 ( https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ ).

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Andrew M. Q. King, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Arcady R. Mushegian, Michael J. Adams, Bas E. Dutilh, et al.. Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2018). Archives of Virology, 2018, 163 (9), pp.2601-2631. ⟨10.1007/s00705-018-3847-1⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977332⟩